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WASTE DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS UNITED STATES ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS AND THE PORT OF STOCKTON STOCKTON DEEP WATER SHIP CHANNEL AND TURNING BASIN MAINTENANCE DREDGING PROJECT MILE 36.5 TO MILE 41 .0 SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY -4- required part of this permit. However, a receiving water condition not in conformance with the limitation is not necessarily a violation of this Order. The Board may require an investigation to determine cause and culpability prior to asserting a violation has occurred. The discharge shall not cause the following in the receiving water: 1. Concentrations of dissolved oxygen to fall below 5.0 mg/1 . 2. Oils, greases, waxes, or other materials to form a visible film or coating on the water surface or on the stream bottom. 3. Oils, greases, waxes, floating material (liquids, solids, foams, and scums) or suspended material to create a nuisance or adversely affect beneficial uses. 4. Toxic substances in concentrations that produce detrimental physiological responses in human, plant, animal , or aquatic life. 5. Esthetically undesirable discoloration. 6. Fungi , slimes, or other objectionable growths. 7. Turbidity to increase more than 10 percent over background levels. 8. The normal ambient pH to fall below 6.5, exceed 8.5, or change by more than 0.5 units. 9. Deposition of material that causes nuisance or adversely affects beneficial uses. 10. The normal ambient temperature to increase more than 5°F. 11 . Taste or odor-producing substances to impart undesirable tastes or odors to fish flesh or other edible products of aquatic origin or to cause nuisance or adversely affect beneficial uses. 12. Violation of any applicable water quality standard for receiving waters adopted by the Board or the State Water Resources Control Board pursuant to the CWA and regulations adopted thereunder. 13. In-stream chronic toxicity. In order to determine compliance with this limitation, the Dischargers shall implement an effluent toxicity monitoring program in accordance with the procedures outlined in EPA 600/4-89/001 (Short-term Methods for Estimating the Chronic Toxicity of Effluent and Receiving Water to Freshwater Organisms) and EPA 505/20-90- 001 (Technical Support Document for Water Quality Based Toxic Control) to estimate whether the discharge produces in-stream toxicity. The